USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental rights that are key to achieving sustained nutrition outcomes. Recognizing these facts, USAID Advancing Nutrition developed a project-wide strategy to help integrate gender into the project's work. This infographic highlights changes to project processes, activities and structures in the project's second year as a result of gender integration and the implementation of the project's gender equality strategy.
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Multi-sectoral social and behavior change for nutrition can take many forms, from agriculture extension to health counseling and much, much more. This infographic describes the different types of social and behavior change needed by different actors to sustain improved nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women's empowerment is thought to be a critical component in improving household nutrition. To test this theory, researchers used a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso that examined whether empowering women in four domains--purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, family planning decisions, and spousal communication--improves child nutritional outcomes.
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COVID-19 has changed many aspects of life around the world, forcing organizations and projects to quickly reassess and adapt programming as the pandemic spread across the globe. As the pandemic evolves, USAID Advancing Nutrition continuously reflects on activities and work plans to identify necessary pivots to continue delivering high-quality work while minimizing risk. This brief describes how the project has used USAID’s framework for Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) to guide efforts to pause, reflect, learn, and adapt based on the best real-time evidence available.
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This two-page brief presents key messages on research related to COVID-19 transmission through human breastmilk. The brief was prepared on behalf of the COVID-19 Infant Feeding Working Group and is current as of September 2020.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition engaged in a learning activity with the USAID Nutrition Innovation Lab to document experiences on partnering and develop recommendations on how innovation labs can partner to improve nutrition outcomes. During the 10-year award period (2010-2020), the Nutrition Innovation Lab partnered with a range of organizations, including other USAID innovation labs, to advance nutrition outcomes.
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Nutrition program packages—such as the Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) toolkit, the Integration Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), the Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) approach, and Essential Nutrition Actions/Essential Health Actions (ENA/EHA) framework for example—typically include training materials and job aids designed to improve nutritional status of infants and young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Food Price Monitor from IFPRI allows users to track changes in food prices since the start of COVID-19 social distancing measures. Daily updates of prices in wholesale and retail markets are provided for a wide range of key food products.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This Interim Guidance is intended for field coordinators, site managers and public health personnel, as well as national and local governments and the wider humanitarian community working in humanitarian situations at food distribution sites, who are involved in the decision making and implementation of multi-sectorial COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response activities – the Guidance is therefore relevant for all Humanitarian Clusters and their partners.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Senior Advisor, Capacity Strengthening position is open for recruitment from October 13 - 27, 2020. The Senior Advisor, Capacity Strengthening will sit on the Capacity Strengthening team and will provide technical leadership and strategic guidance for the design and implementation of capacity strengthening activities across the USAID Advancing Nutrition portfolio, with a strong focus on food systems and diet quality.